Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano
Director: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski

Amazing stuff, 2010-08-11
As they never show parts 2 and 3 of the trilogy on tv I decided to buy all three and of course wasn't disappointed. They are all amazing (with 1 and 2 being better than the third in terms of character development). If you haven't seen these films already - why not?!! :)

Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan, Joely Richardson, Jack Noseworthy
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Disc 1: Film with commentary by Director Paul WS Anderson and Producer Jeremy Bolt. Disc 2: 5 Part documentary : The Making of Event Horizon. Deleated & extended scenes. The unflimed rescue scene storyboard montage with director's commentary. Conceptual art montage with director's comments. The Point Of No Return featurette.
Brilliant on blu-ray!, 2010-08-27
I enjoyed this film very much when it was released on DVD but blu-ray brings a whole new dimension to it. This is one of the best sci-fi horror movies ever made and well in blu-ray it is even better. Crystal clear picture quality and excellent High-def sound brings this film to life in a way that can't be imagined. I highly recommened this blu-ray to anyone who is a fan of this movie even if you own it on DVD already.

Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Sam Bottoms
Director: Francis Ford Coppola

In the tradition of such obsessively driven directors as Erich von Stroheim and Werner Herzog, Francis Ford Coppola approached the production of Apocalypse Now as if it was his own epic mission into the heart of darkness. On location in the storm-ravaged Philippines, he quite literally went mad as the project threatened to devour him in a vortex of creative despair but from this insanity came one of the greatest films ever made. It began as a John Milius screenplay, transposing Joseph Conrad's classic story "Heart of Darkness" into the horrors of the Vietnam War, following a battle-weary Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) on a secret upriver mission to find and execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz(Marlon Brando), who has reverted to a state of murderous and mystical insanity. The journey is fraught with danger involving war-time action on epic and intimate scales. One measure of the film's awesome visceral impact is the number of sequences, images and lines of dialogue that have literally burned themselves into our cinematic consciousness, from the Wagnerian strike of helicopter gunships on a Vietnamese village to the brutal murder of stowaways and the unflinching fearlessness of ...
Unique, 2010-05-31
After seeing parts of this movie when my dad watched it a couple of months ago, I couldn't help but be intrigued. Being nice and cheap on Amazon I decided to pick it up. Now I'm more a fan of action packed war films, such as; Platoon, Saving Private Ryan and We Were Soldiers. However, I really enjoyed Apocalypse Now. Whilst not being extremely action packed, it still provides the battles for those types of fans, whilst at the same time portraying the horror and madness of war.

The acting is superb. Marlon Brando and Micheal Sheen are on top form with some great supporting roles including the late Dennis Hopper as an insane photographer. I just have to say that everything about the film is great. As i've said, the acting is brilliant, the action is gritty and tough, and there are some beautifully directed scenes.

Even if you're a fan of Blockbuster War films (like me), Apocaylpse Now is still amazing. Francis Ford Coppola has crafted a real masterpiece, that is no doubt one of the most legendary (war) films ever. A must watch!

Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring: Jim Sturgess, Laurence Fishburne, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth
Director: Robert Luketic

An unconvincing exercise in moral complexity, 21 is based on Ben Mezrich's book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe) plays brilliant blue collar scholar Ben Campbell, whose doubts that he'll win a scholarship to Harvard Medical School compel him to join a secret, M.I.T. gang of math whiz kids. Under the silky but chilling command of a math professor (Kevin Spacey), Jim and the others master card counting --the statistical analysis of cards dealt in blackjack games. The team lives a humdrum existence during the week, but on weekends in Sin City the students are rolling in cash, frequenting exclusive clubs and feeling on top of the world. Ben even gets the girl: a comely fellow card counter played by Kate Bosworth. Despite all the success, Ben feels ethically compromised and indeed director Robert Luketic (Legally Blonde, Across the Universe), in the old tradition of American movies, plays it both ways where fun vices are concerned. On the one hand, it feels so good --on the other, ahem, we know it's wrong. That studied ambivalence proves wearing after a whi...
Can anyone count cards and win?, 2010-08-17

Card countings is easy to spot, so can anyone work out a scam to count and win? The answer is to work in a team, with some very clever people. Yet they forgot to change their 'secret' messages to each other, even though they are amazingly bright.

I loved this film. It took a little to get into, yet overall I thought it was a great watch.

Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Laurence Fishburne, George Eads, Paul Guilfoyle
Director: Alec Smight, Brad Tanenbaum, Christopher Leitch, Jeffrey G. Hunt, Kenneth Fink

vegas is the best, 2010-08-30
I love CSI on a whole, although disappointed that Grissom left CSI, but Ray seem to be a pretty good replacement.

Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Mary Alice
Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe PantolianoDirector: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
very good item, 2010-08-16
Bought it for £12
Watched it
Sold it for £17
what more can I say?
Very good film. Can watch over and over again

Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring: Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, Emmy Rossum, Laura Linney
Director: Clint Eastwood

Superior acting, writing and direction are on impressive display in the Oscar-winning Mystic River, Clint Eastwood's 24th directorial outing and one of the finest films of 2003. Sharply adapted by LA Confidential Oscar-winner Brian Helgeland from the novel by Dennis Lehane, this chilling mystery revolves around three boyhood friends in working-class Boston--played as adults by Tim Robbins, Sean Penn and Kevin Bacon. They're drawn together by a crime from the past and a murder (of the Penn character's 19-year-old daughter) in the present. These dual tragedies arouse a vicious cycle of suspicion, guilt and repressed anxieties, primed to explode with devastating and unpredictable results. Eastwood is perfectly in tune with this brooding material, giving his flawless cast (including Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden and Laurence Fishburne) ample opportunity to plumb the depths of a resonant human tragedy, leading to an ambiguous ending that qualifies Mystic River for contemporary classic status. --Jeff Shannon
Superb murder mystery, 2010-05-21
(Review of the Blu-ray version)

The book versus the film. It's an old argument, and in this case, outstanding though this film is, the book is even better.

Three 11-year-old boys play in the poorer streets of Boston, but one of them is persuaded to get into a car by two men posing as police officers. He's gone for four days and suffers dreadful abuse of a kind that the viewer can only imagine. Then the film moves forwards 30-odd years to the present day, and while two of the friends (Jimmy and Dave) are still in the same neighbourhood, the third - Sean - is now a homicide detective and living on the better side of town. A 19-year-old girl is brutally murdered, and Sean soon realises that she's Jimmy's daughter. Most of the rest of the film is devoted to finding out who did it, and there are some red herrings and surprises along the way. There's something of a race to track down the murderer, because Jimmy's done time and he wants to avenge his daughter's death in his own special way before Sean finds the killer by way of the police procedural process.

This is outstanding in every detail, with a great cast of actors at all levels. Sean Penn is just perfect as ex-con-gone-straight Jimmy (well, nearly straight), and Kevin Bacon as Sean and Tim Robbins as Dave quickly become the characters the readers of the book will have seen in their mind's eye - not necessarily in immediate appearance, but more so in their very different personalities. Penn and Robbins won Oscars for their performances in fact. It's high drama of the highest quality, and yet again hats off to Clint Eastwood for creating such a gem - he must surely be one of the best film directors around today. He produced the musical score too.

With further Oscar nominations for Eastwood as Best Director, Brian Helgeland for Best Writing and Screenplay, not to mention Marcia Gay Harden as Best Supporting Actress and the film itself nominated as Best Film, it's not surprising that it's as good as it is but awards and nominatons alone do not necessarily make for a great film; in this case they do, for this has to be one of the best films of its kind in recent years, if we're talking about mystery dramas. Eastwood is relatively faithful to the book of the same name by Dennis Lehane, but inevitably there are compromises. The most obvious to me was the Boston atmosphere, which played such a big part in the novel but is only occasionally on view in the film. Then there's the camaraderie among the three boys, and the bond they sealed back in the day; it was lovingly portrayed in the book and became its heart and soul. In the film I suppose there just wasn't the time to do that, but anyone unfamiliar with the novel won't know what's missing.

In spite of that, this is a great film, one in which all involved give of their best to produce a near flawless result: the writing, directing, acting and production style can't be faulted, it's a film worth buying rather than just renting. In Blu-ray the treats are enhanced of course, and this is one of those which looks like a high-def film from the first minute. The sound quality is excellent too. In case it wasn't already very clear, I give this Blu-ray film the highest recommendation; but I have to admit it - somehow the book is better still.

Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria Foster
Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski

The Wachowski Brothers' The Matrix took the well-worn science fiction idea of virtual reality, added supercharged Hollywood gloss and a striking visual style and stole The Phantom Menace's thunder as the must-see movie of the summer of 1999. Laced with Star Wars-like Eastern mysticism, and featuring thrilling martial arts action choreographed by Hong Kong action director Yuen Woo Ping (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), The Matrix restored Keanu Reeves to genre stardom following virtual reality dud Johnny Mnemonic (1995), and made a star of Carrie-Anne Moss, who followed this with the challenging perception twister Memento (2000). Helping the film stand out from rivals Dark City (1998) and The Thirteenth Floor (1999) was the introduction of the celebrated "bullet time" visual effects, though otherwise the war-against-the-machines story, hard-hitting style and kinetic set-pieces such as the corporate lobby shoot-out lean heavily on Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Elsewhere the influence of John Woo, from the ultra-cool near real-world SF of Face/Off (1997) to the raincoats and sunglasses look of bullet-bal...
Great movie., 2010-08-29
What is the Matrix? What is dream and what is reality?
This film is not just a science-fiction stuff, it is much more than that.
It is a high form of art using a lot of the spiritual language and symbols.
It only depends on you, whether you can see it, or not.
It only depends on how receptive you are to the messages, which are given to you through the whole story.

Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over
Staring: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly, Virginia Capers, Khandi Alexander
Director: Brian Gibson

Tina Turner, that dynamic diva of pop/soul/R&B from the 1960s to the 90s, sings like a woman whose life story is every bit as rough and tough as her voice. And What's Love Got to Do With It, based on her autobiographical account (in I, Tina, written with Kurt Loder) of her years under the iron fist of her abusive husband and musical partner/Svengali Ike, is further proof of what we've always known about Tina: She's what you call a survivor. The movie is sort of the Disney version of Tina Turner's story--a glossy but thoroughly enjoyable, old-fashioned showbiz biopic with laughs, tears, great music, and outrageous (but faithful) period decor, costumes, makeup, and hairstyles. Our Heroine triumphs not only over the rigorous demands of her career in the music business, but finally manages to bust out of her troubled, violent marriage as well and become her own person. This is a movie that'll have you shouting at the top of your lungs: "You go, girl!" --Jim Emerson
emotional, 2010-09-01
this film, is one of the best films i have watched in a long time. i cried and smiled at the end, knowing that shes been through so much.

Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over
Staring: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Joe Pantoliano
Director: The Wachowski Brothers

Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Gloria FosterDirectors: Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski
Great movie., 2010-08-29
What is the Matrix? What is dream and what is reality?
This film is not just a science-fiction stuff, it is much more than that.
It is a high form of art using a lot of the spiritual language and symbols.
It only depends on you, whether you can see it, or not.
It only depends on how receptive you are to the messages, which are given to you through the whole story.